Lavinsky Collins Quotes & Sayings

The harsh dimness that follows loss isn't static, but charged with the energy of immanent change. Hurt, I was left with a choice: wallow and stay in the dark, or seek light and fight to reach it. These two paths emerged. I had this choice to make. Loss is the shocking catalyst of transformation. I saw that this mountain valley, haunted by senseless murders, darker, had absorbed unthinkable violence and turned it into mesmerizing light. — Aspen Matis

Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten. — Benjamin Franklin

We're all good until we're not strong enough to be anymore. — Lindsay Cummings

Having the person that you love by your side and starting a family with them is the best thing that can happen to you in this life. You can't ask for more. — Elsa Pataky

I was home schooled starting in seventh grade. — Austin Butler

They were of much the same stock, and their creeds could only be distinguished by their varying degrees of bigotry and intolerance. — Arthur Conan Doyle

But say That death be not one stroke, as I supposed, Bereaving sense, but endless misery From this day onward, which I feel begun Both in me, and without me, and so last To perpetuity; ay me, that fear Comes thund'ring back with dreadful revolution On my defenceless head; both Death and I Am found eternal, and incorporate both, Nor I on my part single, in me all Paradise Lost Posterity stands cursed: fair patrimony That I must leave ye, sons; O were I able To waste it all myself, and leave ye none! — John Milton

Industry is a far better horse to ride a genius. — Walter Lippmann

I cannot have a sufficiency of books. Indeed, I have more than I should... Books give utter delight: they talk with us... and are bound to us by lively and witty intimacy, and do not just insinuate themselves alone on their readers but present the names of others, and each one creates a longing for another. — Francesco Petrarca

In later life, as in earlier, only a few persons influence the formation of our character; the multitude pass us by like a distant army. One friend, one teacher, one beloved, one club, one dining table, one work table are the means by which one's nation and the spirit of one's nation affect the individual. — Jean Paul

Every minute that you save by making it useful, more profitable, is so much added to your life and its possibilities. Every minute lost is a neglected by-product - once gone, you will never get it back. — Arthur Brisbane

In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America was not in any radical way dissimilar from that of what the American settlers called the mother country. — Robert Burchfield

It's a funny thing about comin' home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the same. You'll realize what's changed is you. — F Scott Fitzgerald